Phenomenal Concepts

First rough definition

Phenomenal concepts, roughly, are concepts which one forms when introspecting. They describe what conscious experience appears to be, how conscious experience presents itself to the introspecting subject.

Importance

It is important to separate phenomenal concepts from phenomenal experience (or experience in total). If phenomenal concepts are taken at face value, i.e. they are taken to correctly to refer to experience, they determine what models of consciousness should address. But one could also say that the relation between phenomenal concepts and experience is a more complex, or non-trivial, one, e.g. as in illusionism or eliminativism.

In the literature, special features of phenomenal concepts are being used to explain why there might seem to be an explanatory gap. This "seeming" might be a result of the fact that phenomenal concepts are different in nature to physical concepts.